All posts tagged Mark McCombe

As Asia’s fixed-income issuance takes off, BlackRock’s Asia Pacific chairman is hoping the supply-and-demand problems that have plagued the region’s bond markets previously will be a thing of the past.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mark McCombe lauded the explosive growth in Asia’s debt markets in 2012 as a healthy step forward in the development of the region’s capital markets. He said the increasing popularity of debt is taking place amid a shift in the financing habits of Asian companies as more long-term thinking starts to take hold post-financial crisis.

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David Petraeus, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a retired military general, has signed court papers indicating he will plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information in exchange for a prosecutor’s recommendation he serve no jail time.